Safari & Jungle Animals worksheets for 5 year olds

24 safari & jungle animals worksheets pitched at 5 year olds, free to print with no account and no watermark. Most are straightforward, with one that steps up for a child who is ready for more.

There is a good spread of difficulty: an elephant or a capybara gives younger children large, simple shapes to fill in, while a tiger's stripes or the patterns on other big cats ask for steadier hands and more patience.

They assume a child who writes most uppercase and many lowercase letters, which is typical at five. If that is not there yet, the age 4 sheets are the better place to start.

Sheets in this set include Big-Billed Platypus Colouring Page, Standing Meerkat Colouring Page and Waving Jaguar Cub Colouring Page. Each is one page on A4, laid out with margins wide enough that nothing is lost printing on US Letter.

Sessions of ten to fifteen minutes work better than one long sitting. Print at 100% rather than fit-to-page — the gap between the guide lines is what tells a child how tall to make a letter, and shrinking it to 94% quietly undoes that.